There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...

This paper discusses what intercultural English learning/teaching (IELT) is in English as a world Englishes (WEes) and how IELT can contribute to the development of proficiency/competence among WEes and can be fitted into actual WEes classrooms. This is to claim that IELT be a pivotal contextual factor facilitating success in proficiency/competence among all varieties of Englishes in today’s gl...

This paper presents the first large-scale multivariate analysis of future-time reference (FTR) variation in world Englishes. On basis 7,922 hand-coded tokens from eight corpora International Corpus English suite, study probes effect predictor variables on choice between will and BE going to (BGT) as FTR markers. Statistically significant effects for all conditioning except polarity are found, w...

Let us turn to the latter, more far-reaching issue first, namely to the notions of complexity/ complexification vs. simplicity/simplification. These are currently widely debated notions in the study of language typology and language variation, as can be seen from recent book publications such as Kusters (2003), Dahl (2004), Miestamo/Sinnemäki/Karlsson (to appear 2008) or Gil/Trudgill/ Sampson (...